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Recurring once a month; monthly; gone through in a month; as, the menstrual revolution of the moon; pertaining to monthly changes; as, the menstrual equation of the sun's place.

Retention or suppression of the menstrual discharge.

The monthly courses of women; menstrual discharges; menses.

Pertaining to the catamenia, or menstrual discharges.

A medicine that promotes the menstrual discharge.

Annual epact, the excess of the solar year over the lunar year, -- being eleven days. -- Menstrual epact, or Monthly epact, the excess of a calendar month over a lunar.

Menstrual disharge; menses. Harvey. Flood anchor (Naut.) , the anchor by which a ship is held while the tide is rising. -- Flood fence, a fence so secured that it will not be swept away by a flood. -- Flood gate, a gate for shutting out, admitting, or releasing, a body of water; a tide gate. -- Flood mark, the mark…

Menstrual discharges. Lev. xv. 24. Animal flower (Zoöl.) See under Animal. -- Cut flowers, flowers cut from the stalk, as for making a bouquet. -- Flower bed, a plat in a garden for the cultivation of flowers. -- Flower beetle (Zoöl.), any beetle which feeds upon flowers, esp. any one of numerous small species of th…

Menstrual flux; catamenia; menses. [Obs.]

The catamenial or menstrual discharge, a periodic flow of blood or bloody fluid from the uterus or female generative organs.

The menstrual flux; menses. [Obs.]

Profuse bleeding from the womb, esp. such as does not occur at the menstrual period.